(JTA) – For years, Candance Owens and Ben Shapiro traveled parallel paths. Both are millennial right-wing culture warriors with social media followings in the millions. And both depart from broader communities that have historically voted Democratic ...

New billboards with strong messages against antisemitism are now up along two major roadways around St. Louis, with a third to be added this week. The billboards' messaging is intentionally powerful and designed to make drivers look twice. The group...

(JTA) — When the conservative website Campus Reform published what it said, in all-caps, was an “EXCLUSIVE” about a new federal antisemitism investigation at Arizona State University, it had the rare distinction of being able to cite the complaint...

An ad purchased by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism that ran during the Academy Awards on Sunday is drawing criticism for depicting a bar mitzvah celebrated in a church. “I’m sure they had decent intentions but this ad sends a poor message,”...

A New Jersey school district has apologized for an email to staff encouraging them to “contextualize” lessons about Ramadan by explaining how Israel prevents Palestinian Muslims from celebrating the holiday as it “enacts a genocide.”  It also...

In the mid-1990s, when he was a young, uninhibited comedian, David Baddiel did something that he would come to regret years later. In a skit on the soccer comedy show “Fantasy Football League,” which he co-authored, Baddiel played Jason Lee, a black...

(JTA) — A real-life synagogue bomb threat of the type that plagued Jewish congregations for much of last year will be dramatized in an ad during Sunday’s Academy Awards, the most-watched non-football television broadcast in the United States. The...

(JTA) – At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech. Wearing a hat with the logo of the neo-Nazi...

The Jewish Federations of North America asked a U.S. congressional committee to approve a bill that would allow the president to ban TikTok or force its China-based parent company to sell it. “Social media is a major driver of the rise in antisemitism,”...

(New York Jewish Week) — At the opening of its annual conference on fighting antisemitism, the (ADL) Anti-Defamation League’s CEO defended the decision to honor Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Jonathan Greenblatt,...

(JTA) — When Morielle Lotan learned that her nephew, Addir Mesika, had sacrificed his life to save others during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the consultant to climate tech startups and investors said she was nearly paralyzed with grief. “I...